Animal Collective - Did You See The Words Lyrics

All the best parts of this song are simultaneously 10 beats late and half a beat early.


I love it.

I love the ending with the fast piano and everything! :)

I am STOKED to listen to this for the first time drunk at 2 am

i love farting

Though mine is messy, yours is maybe nine. love it, he’s talking about cum, wouldn’t be ANCO without cum analogies.

Makes me cry every time.

Pandas vocal harmonies❤️❤️

THERES SOMETHING LIVING IN THESE liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNES

I don't think I fully understand why I came back to this song, but what I do understand is that the line "there's something living in these lines" rings so true.

I just want to commutate something which I feel like everyone needs to know but at the same time I feel like everyone already knows it so what would be the point but that's when I've forgotten that the perspective I represent is so unique that there is no possible way that everyone, and for that matter anyone would ever people able to understand where I'm coming from. we are all drops in an ocean but all these drops and made from something different yet almost the same. On the basic level we are human beings but that is just base. A whole other level comes from the rest of our upbringing and how we grow is depend on so many different factors.

I guess that the message, the question, the answer and everything else boils down to: does that make sense to you because honestly I forgot what point I was making?

keep it on repeat

Incredible album.

Banshee Beat will always be my favorite track on this album. If not because of it’s significance to my life in general. This track itself is extraordinary. I love Animal Collective. Thank you for uploading.

canyouseethewords

I've been watching/listening to this Youtube upload since 2009

i wonder how many times iver heard this in my life. it never gets old!

Beach Boys style

Magical

I don't know why, but the ending, where he's wailing, and humming, and the piano sounds like stars, always makes me tear up. it grabs a hold of my chest everytime

If "Who could win a rabbit" is the theme song of EverymanHYBRID, this needs to be the one of "Canyouseethewords"

Senior year, 2006, scared shitless about "what's next." lol that was the time-frame when I first bought/heard the Feels album, and to this day it conjures up the hazy past. And the present and, ya know, future. AC's music is brilliant that way.

makes me feel alive

Please research the flat Earth!

It is worth researching why there are basically no actual photographs of Earth from space, or why NASA works with Disney. I promise it's worth your time

you are having an emotional reaction to somebody just saying 'hey guys maybe question the official narrative that NASA is putting out.' Hopefully somebody reading this is curious or bored enough to thoroughly research what us flat Earth 'crazies' are saying about it..there sure is a reason so many people are talking about it these days!

huh, very typical of a flat earther to dismiss any arguments i posed and label it as an "emotional response." truly a fantastic display of deflection. the reason why so many people are talking about it is because of people like you who continue pushing a narrative that has been easily disproved for years.

The Earth is a cone, dudes. How do you explain mountains?

1. why the fuck are you trying to spread nutty conspirancies in an animal collective video?

2. flat earth is bullshit and greeks figured that out 2000 years ago. recently some flat earthers proved that the planet is in fact, round while trying to disprove that very same thing. please go back to first grade, yeah? while we do have photos of earth from space, mathematics can also demonstrate the planet's shape. good gods lmao

edit: ah, of course it's a crazy christian. you people are beyond help

purple paint???

Have you seen them?
The words cut open your poor intestines
Can't deny when the inky periods drip from your mailbox and blood flies dip and glide reach down
Inside
There's something living in these lines.

And when your newest kisser is peeking
You dress yourself up tonight get all tangled up in arms and legs it's cramped up and someone grabs a hold do you go
Ohhhhh
Should you go home?
There's something starting don't know why.

And in a house so cozy few words are spoken
Let's take our shoes off and unwind when there's minuets off in the background drowning out eyes off ears off test the kiss
Goodnight
A kiss goodnight
Don't keep my loving on my mind.

Because it's messy, yes, this mess is mine
Though mine is messy yours is maybe nine

Look we've had similar stitches
Look we have similar frowns
Do the elderly couples still kiss and hug and grab their big wrinkly skin so tough wrinkly wrink wrink wrinkly rough…?

Did you see the words you know?
(Give me rabies bring you babies at the hospital)
Violent ends with friends that go
(I kissed a few in sticky shoes our cartoon show is broken)
Doo, doo, doo, doo...
Oh, oh, oh, oh...

@Blackapple why?

i cant help but tear up

a kiss good nigth

🍄🍄

The words are alive!! The world is alive!! It speaks to us through words!!

My favorite album. Brings back so many high school memories I could cry. So much nostalgia with Feels.

"There's something living in these lines"

Wew lad, recent comment.

Hi laddo, AnCo amirite?

Cough cough Canyouseethewords cough cough EveryManHybrid

*cough cough* yes *cough cough*

*cough cough* Kokichi Ouma

This song slayed me more than once while Lucy was visiting town

do the d r a g s dude

DUDE
ACID
LAMO

Holy crap, The Tuss avitar!

u know it bby

this song is good! Im an too :)

a lot of songs compressed into one

a lot of songs enfold into one

I know that Animal Collective gets compared to The Beach Boys a lot, but I can't help but feel like there's a Beach Boys vibe on this song. The way that Animal Collective sings and layers their vocals isn't too far off from the work of Brian Wilson, in my opinion.

yes it is inevitable to avoid the comparison, they sound much alike yet they've said they take much more influence from beatles than beach boys

I saw this in reverend greens comments I still have no clue what the fu k lmao

I hear it in some, especially Panda Bear oriented songs, but not this one

I feel it's more similar to death cab for cutie, the postal service, west coast pop art experimental band and the talking heads. Also some math rock bands I can't remember the names of.

First AnCo song I ever heard. Comparable to In the Flowers, Feels and MPP both have openers better than any other song in the album.

Turn into something is pretty dope.

*cough* grass *cough* *cough* the purple bottle

Banshee Beat, man.

cough bluish cough the guys eyes

I love your profile pic! ❤️

this is my favorite animal collective album. this song is 50% the reason why.

I love your videos dad

and you're a mean bitch, noted :)

i love your profile picture haha

is flesh canoe the other 50%?

@Sardonicous nah man is probably banshee beat

foda demais !!

Man years later and this still gives me goosebumps every time. This album wasn't called feels for nothing huh.

I keep crawling back to the purple bottle

But can you see the words?








*cough cough* EverymanHYBRID *cough cough*

Well played sir.

Rabbits, everywhere

I try. Do I really see them?

Jack Nicholson grinning and nodding.

@Jeffrey Koval Oh God. 😂

Isn't this HABITs Tumblr account name?

I guess HABIT is a Animal Collective fan :V

yeah, guess so xD

No that's Stephanie's. And it's CANyouseethewords. But I also thought that it was in reference to this song.

I'm pretty sure the creators of everymanhybrid were animal collective fans

@Oxameter57 defiantly  

To this day I still have no idea why this wasn't their most popular album. I mean, it's a lot more accessible than anything that came after it. Same with The National and "Alligator."

+Gegeg
Both this and Strawberry Jam are far more accessible. Both sound like radio ready music (or at least have some radio friendly tracks) while all of MPP's music either is obscured by walls of sound, endlessly repeated, or is extremely dissonant.

hell one could say Sung Tongs is far more accessible, it's mostly quiet acoustic songs.

+Osmund Saddler disagree to agree

@Rick Astley
 Same here. I heard them playing it in a record store (remember those), so I asked the two guys working there who it was, and I bought it right away. I eventually came to love almost everything on that album, but if weren't for this song, I never would've made it that far.

+musicalman1995 Campfire Songs is one of their best albums, get outta here

Merriweather is their most accessible, hands down. This is their most beautiful.

This is my wake up alarm every day , I tend to wake in a better mood .
I also tend to fall back asleep

it works

trust me

Lmao i canNOT stand seinfeld

you don't need to stand it just use

seinfeld is my alarm, it works really well cuz i fuckin hate that song and i want to immediately turn it off

Gigantic..

funny how lennox was wearing a daft punk shirt i wonder if he ever realized he was going to collab with them

He wanted them to remix one of their songs earlier on. They "politely declined".

nasty he dint have to talk about periods...

red ink lol

@William Hensley HAHA LOL lol haha wow

I am intrigued by these sounds.

@Angie Shackleford asl?

My favorite AC song ever.

why on earth would that matter?

if anything it makes you cooler.

That’s fuckin bad ass

I always read AC as Anal Cunt

@Paragraphs AxCx 🤙

There's something living in these lines!!  Please god naive hipster children, don't read them!  You don't know what kind of transcendental mediation was taught to Avey and Panda at their new age school to open up their little child bodies to the greatest knowledge of Old Cthulu that has ever been brought to man!  Don't you understand?  Don't you understand why Aleister Crowley, the dark sub-God of Old Cthulu, created this new age??  Don't you understand why he created the popular culture of popular music (and sub-pop -ular music).  He did it to bring about the end, bring this final dark dream to the minds of the youth so that their combined (very dull) power could awaken Dark Cthulu!!!!  Avey Tare dreams of Cthulu every night!!!  He dreams of dancing with Great Dark Cthulu and it makes him fucking insane!!!!  He's a homicidal maniac and he has the darkest visions of any human that has ever lived.  He doesn't make art, he throws his homicidal dream-fueled rage up all over the world.  Everyone will know Animal Collective when this is all over.  They are a darker, far purer and more Satanic evil than the Beatles, they are the greatest band of all time and they will bring about the evil dream.  ALL HAIL DARK CTHULU

This person is talking about Satanic Ritual Abuse and it is unfortunately very real. Watch the channel called Serenity Rayne for research on this, she is a victim of SRA and the MKUltra Monarch program. This type of abuse on children is unfortunately all too real.

Meegs B right but that literally has nothing to do with what they're talking about. and now that I see that the OC is clearly deranged and you believe in a flat earth, I'm not gonna further comment on this. you clearly live in the first dimension and I hope you rise. take care xx

alldayHK how do you know?

i cant tell if ur pfp is the at war with the mystics album cover or not

NETFOXFEDLOCKTIMEEXPERIMENT maybe sit back on the mushroom

I love that movie :)

Holy cat balls batman Panda Bear is wearing a Daft Punk Shirt at 2:28!

I will never forget that night

NO at comment below me

dont ever abbreviate AC as AnCo again

I saw AnCo at bonnaroo and they played this live and it was so beautiful... oh my god I love this album

well I'll be damned.

BUENISIMA ROLA DE AC, ME CARGA LA PILA!!!!

those are the best top comments on youtube

I just want to go numb

watched for the art, stayed for the music

...and then it happens

What a nice potato

this would be my theme song if was a superhero who wore a rabbit suit and ran around karate chopping politicians, stealing their money, and putting it in a fund for paralyzed baby seals with HIV.

Your comment, sir, is the best comment I have seen in, if I'm not mistaken, ever! Also: You've just (a year ago) won the internetz and my heart!

spirit>sung tongs>feels

my god, feels is such a stellar album.

wtf i hope your fresh in your search

Been checkin out the band to see the hype didnt like anything till this

if this was a song, it would be a pretty good waffle

one of my top favourite ac songs, maybe my alltime favourite. i used to listen to this as a teenager and teleport to this other emotional landscape. i felt so alienated listening to this, but so enlightened that i was proud of it and never wanted to change. so many years later it still give me shivers and endless happiness for five minutes.

this song is "happy summer love" to me. if anyone is interested, i recently finished my first album "probably not for people on strong drugs, but maybe only appealing to those who are" and i am trying to spread the word to some open and like minded music listeners. check it out if interested. i am brand new to this and would really like some honest feedback.

you would definitely have the most intense internal debate on whether eating it would be what is best for everyone or not, i agree.

i can't stop replaying.. :]

when your bank says no champion says yes!

im mexican so if this song wuz a taco it would be a good taco

This track is a masterpiece.

animal collective is so damn uplifting. i can't wait to see them in concert

I'm a good waffle

this song's like bacon...always good & sizzling

lyrics are disturbing, but holy shit, i don't give a fuck. this is a masterpiece.

forgot how great animal collective is then i watched i am here...and heard this song again and got me back into them

If the 8am sunlight could be turned into a song, it would be this one

i not only saw them, i tasted them and felt them too!

this song makes me want to ride my bike through space

@animatedrouge2 totes did

SplinterHeads movie brought me here :3

"Grab their big wrinkly skin so tough wrinkly wrink wrink wrinkly rough"

@jimissarcastic Thats a really great 5 songs! but its too hard to make a top 5 for animal collective lol Theres too many good songs. Their new songs seem like they are going to be great! I cant wait for the cd to come out!

gooodgreenisgoodwiththissong

@donaldnewmanmedone what ever you've been smoking i want it.

Reading through these comments, I can see the the Animal Collective listeners all have similar lifestyles and interests. But what a better way to enjoy all this amazing music <3

These lyrics always get to me and this song made me cry when I saw them live

AC special song

@donaldnewmanmedone the god damn best